What can be concluded from Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps' expectations-augmented Phillips curve?
A) that there is no long run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation
B) that there is a short run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation
C) that there are two types of Phillips curves
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
D
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Refer to Figure 18.3. In autarky, the maximum amount of pogo sticks that Livonia can produce is
A) 120. B) 100. C) 80. D) 40.
Quality of life indexes produced in popular magazines often place a heavy emphasis on the cost of housing in different cities -- with a lower housing cost entering the index as a positive feature of the city. Why might such quality of life indeces be misleading?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements about natural monopoly is correct?
A) Governments regulate natural monopolies in order to ensure that costs of production are minimized. B) Governments regulate natural monopolies in order to ensure that the firm earns a normal profit. C) Governments regulate natural monopolies in order to prevent them from making profits. D) Governments regulate natural monopolies in order to keep their workers from earning wages that are too high.
Firms may experience diseconomies of scale when
a. they are too small to take advantage of specialization. b. large management structures are bureaucratic and inefficient. c. there are too few employees, and managers do not have enough to do. d. average fixed costs begin to rise again.